Price 60€ + 60€ (Insc) + 0,75€ (Seg)

Schedule Thursdays & Friday 15h30 to 18h00

Type occasional

Program Since the 1960s the visual arts have been questioning the possibilities, but also the precariousness, of cinema as mass media. The outcome of such a relationship is wide and heterogenous but generically supported on the distinction and correlation between film and cinema, i.e. the connection between the production of moving-images and their respective material support, and the socio-cultural mechanisms that determine their production, distribution and experience. Today, this questioning has become more pressing, as the mass proliferation of mobile screens and the distribution of high quality content through the internet has fragmented the forms through which we watch audio-visual content, challenging the dominant position of cinema. In its relationship with cinema, contemporary art has assumed a singular, if not contradictory, position: on the one hand, it started a systematic reflection around the structures regulating the experience, distribution and production of cinema that, to a great extent, anticipated the current techno-cultural fragmentation; on the other hand, it has increasingly become a haven for the most experimental cinema produced today, giving the latter the conditions that are being depleted within the conventional circuits of cinema production.

Teachers

• Nuno Rodrigues